This Week In Security: Claude Gets Hacking, Hotel WiFi, And NPM Compromised Again

kMaybe feeling left out from the questionable hype train of “Our AI models can’t be trusted”, Anthropic has released reports that their Claude model has “reached the Internet” and accessed …read more

Calculus-Free PID (Almost) In A Spreadsheet

PID controllers are everywhere. They regulate temperature, motor speed, power supplies, positioning systems, process equipment, and probably a dozen things within arm’s reach of you right now. They’re also frequently …read more

FitzRoy’s Glass: Victorian Weather Marvel Or Glorified Thermometer?

Everyone talks about the weather. This is doubly true for sailors, where bad weather could mean a very bad day. So it isn’t surprising that navies around the world have …read more

FLOSS Weekly Episode 878: A Tool With Opinions

This week Jonathan chats with Jonathan Pallant about embedded Rust! Learn about the growing Rust driver library, the different ways to build a Rust stack on an embedded device, and …read more

Know Your Food: Our Daily Bread

It’s time to return to our no-punches-pulled look at food manufacture, and this time we’re looking at the humble loaf of bread. As before, we’re approaching the subject with a …read more

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Retrotechtacular: A View Of The Moon From 1964

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By Al Williams | August 9, 2026

If you didn’t live through it, it is hard to understand how excited the general public was about the race for the moon. You can capture some of it by …read more
Hackaday Links: August 9, 2026

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By Tom Nardi | August 9, 2026

Bad news for anyone who was hoping for some relief from the memory shortage — Digitimes is reporting that the production capacity of major players such as Samsung, Micron, and …read more
The Stages Of Grief In Repairing A Trinitron Found In The Trash

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By Maya Posch | August 9, 2026

Sometimes you see a project just staring at you with proverbial puppy dog eyes and you just cannot look away. In the case of a once rather nice Sony TV …read more
The Chinese Smart Glasses Proving That Smart Glasses Can Be Repairable

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By Maya Posch | August 9, 2026

It’s often claimed that wearable devices cannot have user-replaceable batteries or even be serviceable at all due to how compact and waterproof they must be, yet there are plenty of …read more
Transmitting Analog Video Via Frikkin’ Laser Beams

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By Tyler August | August 9, 2026

Transmitting analog video via photons is old hat: that’s how everything started, after all, back in the day with over-the-air TV. Up the frequency of those photons from radio to …read more
Continously Extruding 3D Printed Tubes With Compressed Air

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By Aaron Beckendorf | August 9, 2026

[Jan] of [Roetz 4.0] has a unique approach to multi-material 3D printing: he’s designed an extruder which takes two different materials and extrudes one as a shell around the other. …read more
Whatever Happened To The Computer Of Tomorrow, Anyway? The Xerox Alto Story

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By Tyler August | August 9, 2026

You’ve almost certainly heard of the Xerox Alto, the machine that pioneered the desktop-mouse-keyboard interface and inspired Steve Jobs to produce the Apple Lisa and Macintosh computers. It wasn’t just …read more

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